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The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).
Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .
[1] His critics considered it obscene and irreligious, as well as accusing him of plagiarising Flaubert's Madame Bovary, [1] and the novel was largely forgotten until the end of the twentieth century, when it was recognized as a classic of Spanish literature. [1] It was first translated into English by John D. Rutherford in 2002. [1]
Esperpento first made its appearance as an authentic dramatic genre in the 1920 play Luces de Bohemia by Valle-Inclán. The conceptual metaphors in this theater genre were inspired by real locales; for example, the callejón del Gato (Gato Alley) in the play was inspired by the ironmongers' market in calle de Álvarez Gato (Álvarez Gato Street) in Madrid.
The book opens with a prologue which introduces the characters of the Count and Patronio. The titles in the following list are those given in Keller and Keating's 1977 translation into English. [4] James York's 1868 translation into English gives a significantly different ordering of the stories and omits the fifty-first. [5]
Nínay is a novel in the Spanish language written by Pedro Alejandro Paterno, and is the first novel authored by a native Filipino.Paterno authored this novel when he was twenty-three years old [1] and while living in Spain in 1885, the novel was later translated into English in 1907 [1] and into Tagalog in 1908. [2]
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La Araucana (also known in English as The Araucaniad) is a 16th-century epic poem [1] in Spanish by Alonso de Ercilla, about the Spanish Conquest of Chile. [2] It was considered the national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age ( Siglo de Oro ). [ 3 ]